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Lies, Damned Lies and Phonological Statistics.
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? Yaali Annar The Gote
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Now, here's a prelim data of the consonants. First the PoA (taken from UPSID, I'll try to find out how phoible consonant classification work.)

bilabial: 99,7
labiodental: 45
dental: 35
alveolar: 63,6
postalveolar: 64,3
retroflex: 20,1
palatal: 89,8
velar: 99,5
uvular: 18,6
pharyngeal: 4,2
glottal: 74,7

Of course it's not universal accross MoA. For example, on further query, labiodental values are almost one of /f v/

UPSID has kinda weird classification of dental, alveolar, postalveolar. I lumped UPSID's "alveolar" with its "dental/alveolar" (yeah it's written like that, with slash) also "postaveolar" is listed as "palatal-alveolar" in UPSID.

Anyway MoA:

nasal: 96,4
plosive: 100
affricate: 67,1
fricative: 93,3
trill: 35,4
flap: 33
approximant: 96,2
implosive: 11,9
click: 1,1

All 451 languages registered in UPSID has plosive, how surprising. Notice how there's no distinction of voicing. Some MoA are prototypically voiced and some are prototypically unvoiced. Let's check them out:

voicelessvoiced
nasal3,996,4
plosive98,873,3
affricate63,134,8
fricative91,550,9
approximant5,396,2
affricated click1,31,1
affricated trill0,20,2
click1,10,8
flap0,233
implosive0,811,5
r-sound0,210,6
trill0,635,2


Yeah... there's also "r-sound" in UPSID data for a catch all bucket to store rhotics.